Science Caturday: Like cats, neutrinos don’t interact with you when you want them to

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this week to Arthur McDonald and Takaaki Kajita for their work with neutrinos.

The two were honored for their contributions to experiments demonstrating that subatomic particles called neutrinos change identities. The neutrinos transform themselves among three types: electron-type, muon-type and tau-type.

The transformation requires that neutrinos have mass, dispelling the long-held notion that they were massless. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobels, said the discovery “has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter.”

This is super impressive and, more importantly, gives us an excuse to re-run this awesome lolcat.

Comment Policy

If you have questions, comments, or believe content on this site is being used in a manner that is inconsistent with the wishes of the content creator, please contact The Finch & Pea staff at finchandpea@gmail.com.

In the interest of maintaining our respectful community, we reserve the right to moderate, delete, or ban any individual comment or user at any time and for any reason without prior notice on a case by case basis.
While the First Amendment of the United States Constitution states "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...", we are not Congress.